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Auction: 25017 - Stamps and Covers of Great Britain
Lot: 5405

Great Britain
1841-53 One Penny Red-Brown
Unplated
I(?), cut into on two sides and touched at tope, cancelled by remarkable, three-lined Dunnet manuscript Maltese Cross in dark brown/black ink and affixed to 1842 (28 May) entire letter from Thurdistoft to Dunfermline, the reverse with "dunnet/s.o.", boxed Thurso 28.05 and Dunfermline 31.05 d.s. Entire with light foxing commensurate with age, otherwise a very rare and characterful usage, Rockoff and Jackson listing only three three-lined covers and one two-lined cover. Photo.

literature:
Recorded and illustrated in "The Encyclopaedia of the Maltese Cross", Vol. 1, Pg. 99-100

provenance:
Robson Lowe, 29 April 1969, Lot 416
Feldman, Nov. 1989
Cavendish, Oct. 1991, lot 791

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Estimate
£3,000 to £4,000